[Patch]New feature to all kind of stl container.vector::data_move() returns vector::data() that can be moved,just as unique_ptr::release() to unique_ptr::get()

Jonathan Wakely jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 15:52:00 GMT 2015


On 8 January 2015 at 15:19, Anthony Shipman wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 12:36:05 am Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> That is a poor interface, which can cause currently working code to leak
>>  memory.
>>
>> extern "C" void some_function(const int*, size_t);
>> std::vector<int> get_values(size_t n);
>> ...
>> some_function(get_values(5).data(), 5);
>>
>> Today this works correctly. With your suggestion the call to data()
>> would release ownership of the memory and it would never be freed.
>>
> Why would this happen? Is there some sort of implied operator=(&&) for
> the int* type?

I don't understand the question.  Why would what happen?



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